moralizer

noun

Definition of moralizernext
1
as in preacher

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Recent Examples of moralizer Fowler certainly was a moralizer, just maybe not in the way Jespersen meant. — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralizer
  1. preacher
  2. moralist
  3. lecturer
  4. puritan
  5. reader
  6. catechist
Noun
  • The preacher was Walter White, who led an Oregon City offshoot of the Followers of Christ, an Idaho sect that spurns medical treatment as a show of faith.
    — Noelle Crombie, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Growing up, the brothers spent much of their childhood traveling around the South with their father, a Pentecostal Church preacher, before eventually forming the band in Nashville in 1999, per American Songwriter.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of preacher
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  • Twenty years ago, moralists tried to strong arm a Texas private school into removing Annie Proulx’s sensitive story Brokeback Mountain from its curriculum.
    — SPIN Team, SPIN, 22 June 2026
  • Carney is a moralist, a filmmaker of fidelity—and of renunciation, depicting the romantic near-misses and what-ifs that his characters leave behind.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
Definition of moralist
Noun
  • Zern, an attorney and UC Davis lecturer, sought the seat held by outgoing school board President Hiram Jackson.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Nancy Sims, a political science lecturer at the University of Houston, said before Election Day that a Democratic breakthrough would reflect frustration with Washington.
    — Blaise Gainey, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of lecturer
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  • Unlike the High Church Swift, Defoe was a puritan (in many things), and where the former was suspicious of the economic instrumentalization that turned people into commodities, the latter was positively bullish on the market economy.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Its students arrive morally outraged, a priori puritans, while its professors are enervated and dissatisfied.
    — Zain Khalid, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of puritan
Noun
  • Debra Moddelmog, who serves on the editorial board of The Hemingway Review, acknowledges that many readers familiar with Hemingway's image regard the women in his books as stereotyped and marginalized.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Nov. 2026
  • For readers, there’s a lending library with a variety of books in English, French, or German.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2026
Definition of reader
Noun
  • While women cannot be ordained as priests or deacons, they are not forbidden from teaching the faith as theologians, catechists and scholars.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • Lacchin was quietly transferred to a nearby mission; his driver and a catechist at Archer’s Post, Benjamin Ekwam, was chosen to marry Sabina.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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